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Do you find yourself stocking up on fresh produce only to throw half of it out days later because it's rotten?

Collectively, Kiwi households are throwing away more than 47,000 tonnes of vegetables a year, contributing to "almost a third of food wasted by New Zealand households, mainly due to their short shelf life," says Dr Miranda Mirosa from the University of Otago.

In an effort to help combat this huge amount of waste, the university has partnered with the Love Food Hate Waste campaign, conducting research to find the best home storage methods to give produce a longer shelf life.

Here are some of the findings which reveal easy methods to make your produce last, in some cases, up to 10 times longer.